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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED
DEUTERONOMY
CHAPTER 16
  18 ¶ aJudges and bofficers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.

Footnotes
18a
1 Chr. 23: 4.
  4 Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were officers and ajudges:
Mosiah 29: 11 (11-25).
  11 Therefore I will be your king the remainder of my days; nevertheless, let aus appoint bjudges, to judge this people according to our law; and we will newly arrange the affairs of this people, for we will appoint wise men to be judges, that will judge this people according to the commandments of God.
D&C 58: 17 (14-20).
  17 And whoso standeth in this mission is appointed to be a ajudge in Israel, like as it was in ancient days, to bdivide the lands of the heritage of God unto his cchildren;
b
Num. 11: 16.
  16 ¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Gather unto me aseventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and bofficers over them; and bring them unto the ctabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.